ICES | Publications

Identity Culture and Politics: An Afro Asian Dialogue

By Imtiaz Ahmed and Ousmane Kane Dhaka
2000
A biannual publication. It aims at dissemination of knowledge and exchange of ideas and projections amongst African and Asian scholars and activists. ...

Globalization and the Transformation of Planetary Rituals in Southern Sri Lanka

By A. Premakumara de Silva
2000
This provocative work is a study of religious change in southern Sri Lanka, concentrating on ideas and rituals surrounding astrology, specifically focusing on the popular ritual known as the Baliya. ...

Violence against Sex Workers in Sri Lanka

Causes, Consequences And Remedies.
By Jody Miller
2000
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The Pure Water of Poetry

A Newly Rewritten and Extended Version of the Author’s Most Important Critical Study
By Regi Siriwardena
1999
A study first published by the author nearly ten years ago. In it, Regi Siriwardena dissents from some of the critical assumptions about poetry that have been most influential in the twentieth century. This study is the fruit of a lifetime’s devotion to poetry by the author as teacher, critic, translator and poet. ...

Octet Collected Plays

By Regi Siriwardena
1999
This collection of eight plays contains all Regi Siriwardena’s writings for the theatre up to now. ...

Working Underground

The LSSP in Wartime: A Memoir of Happenings and Personalities
By Regi Siriwardena
1999
Regi Siriwardena spent five years during the Second World War as a young student and, later, teacher, working for the Lanka Sama Samaja Party which was then functioning illegally and underground. ...